OTRC: Etta James, 73, hospitalized and placed on breathing machine

AP

Etta James performs during the 2006 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans in a Saturday, April 29, 2006 file photo. James was in stable condition Thursday, July 26, 2007, after being hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in los Angeles, Calif., for complications from abdominal surgery she had last month, her manager said. She had to cancel upcoming tour dates with B.B. King and Al Green, her manager said.

"They took her to the hospital," the Reuters news wire quoted James' manager as saying on Friday, December 23. "She was having trouble breathing, so they intubated her. She is on a breathing machine and is resting."

The Associated Press reported that James was taken to a hospital in Southern California, where she lives, on Wednesday.